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Gokul Appiya Srinivasan

Mississauga,ON

Summary

Mainframe professional with over 12 years of experience in application development and support, specializing in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, and CICS. Expertise in streamlining mainframe development, testing, and deployment processes through Agile DevOps practices, particularly within the wholesale banking sector. Demonstrated leadership in guiding junior mainframe resources while fostering a collaborative team environment. Recognized as a subject matter expert in banking technologies such as NACHA, BAI, EDI, and Positive Pay services, with extensive production support experience including end-to-end queries, enhancements, debugging, and automation of routine tasks.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Consultant

Wipro Solutions Canada
11.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: Toronto Dominion Bank
  • Impact analysis, Code development and modernization of CAPCOBOL modules with IMS DB/DB2.
  • Continuous improvement, Resiliency to enhance the application batch process which is the core of financial transaction processing.
  • Requirement analysis and completion of the inbound data collection for the mainframe dataset and testing of the file transfer s with the distributed systems.

Lead Application Developer

Infosys Ltd
06.2017 - 11.2024
  • Company Overview: Truist Bank
  • Treasury & Payments application Development and Migration of code for merger of equals.
  • Gained extensive knowledge on the banking process such as WIRES, NACHA, BAI and EDI file processing.
  • Provided mission critical support for the batch jobs that could have direct impact on the customers personal banking.
  • Mentored junior developers, enhancing team skills and productivity through code reviews and best practices.
  • Spearheaded deployment processes, streamlining release cycles while minimizing downtime risks.
  • Contributed to the architectural design of applications while adhering to industry best practices.
  • Enhancement activities involve code changes for client onboarding and defect fix and promoting the packages.
  • Preparing the Application design document, following TDLC process for release and deployment and coordinating with support teams.

Application Developer

Tech Mahindra
10.2016 - 06.2017
  • Company Overview: Nissan North America
  • Development (Nissan/Infiniti) development and testing of application responsible for storing the VIN, order history for Nissan/Infiniti cars for the Gulf of Mexico plant.
  • Standup calls with onshore teammates to better understand the requirement and application for design, coding and testing to meet the deliver deadlines.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies
12.2013 - 10.2016
  • Company Overview: UBS Wealth Management Americas
  • Production support of RMA and Credit card applications in core banking, fixing production abends and querying the DB2 tables using joins for reports.
  • Front end application access using the stored procedure and simulation for product enhancements.
  • Lending & Mortgage – Security Backed Lending application support.
  • Extensive usage of DB2 queries for report formatting.
  • Preparing monthly metric reports for Demand vs Intake review.
  • Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering. - Electronics and Communication

Anna University
04-2012

Skills

  • JCL
  • COBOL programming
  • VSAM
  • IMS-DB
  • Proficient in DB2
  • EASYTRIEVE
  • CICS
  • EDI
  • NDM
  • ZCM
  • Endeavour
  • Serena Changeman
  • IBM Sterling System Architect
  • IDz
  • JIRA
  • OPCC

Languages

English
Full Professional

Certification

  • IBM Mainframe Developer, 11/23
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals, 07/23
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, 01/23
  • BMC Certified Associate – Control-M 9x Scheduler, 07/20
  • Infosys Certified Kanban Practitioner

Timeline

Technical Consultant

Wipro Solutions Canada
11.2024 - Current

Lead Application Developer

Infosys Ltd
06.2017 - 11.2024

Application Developer

Tech Mahindra
10.2016 - 06.2017

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies
12.2013 - 10.2016

Bachelor of Engineering. - Electronics and Communication

Anna University

Technical Skill Set

JCL, COBOL, VSAM, IMS-DB, DB2, EASYTRIEVE, CICS, EDI, NDM, ZCM, Endeavour, Serena Changeman, IBM Sterling System Architect, IDz, JIRA, OPCC, CA7, Package releases, BMC tools, File Manager, Abend Aid, CA ESP, Confluence

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